SHE posted on Twitted: "With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza".

BARONESS Warsi has resigned from government saying she can no longer support its "morally indefensible" policy on Gaza .

Announcing the decision on Twitter, she said: "With deep regret I have this morning written to the Prime Minister & tendered my resignation. I can no longer support Govt policy on #Gaza."

In a letter to David Cameron she told him she had always been open about her feelings on the conflict.

She wrote: "My view has been that our policy in relation to the Middle East Peace Process generally but more recently our approach and language during the current conflict in Gaza is morally indefensible , is not in Britain's national interest and will have a long term detrimental impact on our reputation internationally and domestically."

Signing the letter "Sayeeda", Lady Warsi told Mr Cameron it had been a privilege to serve under him and assured him of her continuing personal support.

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She became the first Muslim to sit in the Cabinet when she was made Conservative Party co-chairman by David Cameron following the 2010 general election.

She was subsequently moved to the post of Minister of State at the Foreign Office and Minister for Faith and Communities in Mr Cameron's 2012 re-shuffle in a move widely regarded as a demotion.

Lady Warsi is one of five daughters to her Pakistani immigrant parents and studied at Leeds University, going on to work for the CPS and eventually set up her own legal practice.

Israel and Palestine have been locked in a bloody four-week long conflict and Gaza officials claim some 1,800 Palestinians have died. It is thought that around 67 Israelis have also lost their lives.

Throughout the war Lady Warsi has been vocal on Twitter calling for greater international intervention to end the crisis.

On 21 July, she wrote: "The killing of innocent civilians must stop. Need immediate ceasefire in #Gaza. Leadership required on both sides to stop this suffering."

Three days later Lady Warsi added: "Can people stop trying to justify the killing of children. Whatever our politics there can never be justification, surely only regret #Gaza."